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Pensions Watch - Issue 20
3 November 2008
If evidence was ever needed that International Accounting Standard 19 (IAS 19) has been discredited, then the fact that as at 30 September FTSE 350 sponsored defined benefit (DB) schemes had a collective surplus of £1bn, is it.
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Pensions Watch - Issue 18
3 September 2008
KPMG has found that nearly three quarters of FTSE 100
companies could cover their IAS 19 scheme deficits in a single year.
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Pensions Watch - Issue 17
24 July 2008
This month we look at some good news and bad news for DB schemes and reflect on some research carried out by buyout specialist Paternoster.
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Pensions Watch - Issue 16
26 June 2008
Schemes reluctant to explore new avenues...
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Pensions Watch - Issue 15
21 May 2008
Footsie companies dip their toes into buyout waters...
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Pensions Watch - Issue 14
23 April 2008
This month we consider how buyouts continue to monopolise the headlines and how bonds usurp equities in the average DB scheme and much more...
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Pensions Watch - Issue 10
18 December 2007
Lots to summarise in this month's pensions watch not least the governments introduction of a rescue package to bring some Christmas cheer to 130,000 or so people who lost their pensions between 1997 and 2005.
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Pensions Watch - Issue 13
26 March 2008
This month we comment on the budget disappointments and how the PPF puts LDI in the spotlight and much much more....
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Pensions Watch - Issue 12
27 February 2008
A round up of what's been happening in the Pensions arena during February 2008.
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Pensions Watch - Issue 11
28 January 2008
Surplus, what surplus?
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Pensions Watch - Issue 9
26 November 2007
Pensions Watch - Issue 8
30 October 2007
Pensions Watch - Issue 5
5 June 2007
Pensions Watch - Issue 4
22 May 2007
Managing Pension Schemes efficiently
5 March 2007
Slides from conference at the Landmark Hotel on 2nd March 2007.
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Pensions Watch - Issue 2
28 February 2007
Pensions Watch - Issue 1
31 January 2007
Pensions Watch - Issue 7
19 September 2007
Pensions Watch - Issue 6
20 August 2007
Pensions Watch - Issue 3
3 April 2007